HAProxy

Comprehensive HAProxy High Availability Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

Complete HAProxy HA monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Custom dashboard with eight panels covering instance health, throughput and error rates. Includes automated alerts for critical failures.

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Stephane Thirion

1 Sep 2025 · 5 min read

HAProxy

Smart HAProxy Role Detection: Know Your Server's Status Instantly

When managing a high availability HAProxy cluster, one of the most common moments of confusion happens right after you SSH into a server: "Wait, am I on the primary

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Stephane Thirion

1 Sep 2025 · 5 min read

HAProxy

Implementing HAProxy High Availability: A Complete Migration Guide

Migrating from a single HAProxy instance to high availability using keepalived and VRRP. This guide covers implementing automatic failover with Virtual IP management, SSL certificate synchronization and zero-downtime service continuity.

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Stephane Thirion

30 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

NetScaler

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy: A Complete Guide

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy removed the 20 Mb/s freemium bottleneck and replaced dead SDX hardware with a modern, open-source load balancer. This guide covers content switching, tricky apps like Home Assistant and Outline, and the key features you can and cannot migrate.

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Stephane Thirion

29 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

Business Strategy

Why AI Projects (might) Keep Failing ?

Despite massive investment, most AI projects never reach production. Here’s why and how to finally close the gap between ambition and real-world impact.

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Stephane Thirion

27 Aug 2025 · 3 min read

DNS

Building Enterprise-Grade DNS Infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound

Built a DNS infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound delivering 1ms response times, comprehensive ad blocking and complete privacy while maintaining Active Directory compatibility.

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Stephane Thirion

26 Aug 2025 · 7 min read

AI Networking

Building a Network Expert (& Netscaler) LLM with LLaMA 3.2

Fine-tuning open-source AI models for deep domain expertise in enterprise networking

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Stephane Thirion

29 Jul 2025 · 5 min read

ESP32

Pool Temperature Monitoring with ESP32 and ESPHome – Updated Setup

An updated guide to monitoring your pool’s temperature using ESP32 and ESPHome with improved stability, static IP configuration, and a reliable OneWire setup. Includes full YAML config and integration tips with Home Assistant.

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Stephane Thirion

27 Jul 2025 · 2 min read

proxmox

Hunting Down Orphaned Disks in Proxmox: A Simple Bash Script to Reclaim Storage

In any Proxmox setup, especially one using shared storage like a NAS, it's easy to accumulate orphaned virtual disks over time. These are remnants of deleted VMs or containers that silently continue to consume valuable storage space.

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Stephane Thirion

25 Jul 2025 · 2 min read

self hosted

archy.net blog moved to a private comment system

I have officially removed Disqus from the blog and switched to Ghost’s built-in comment system. This change is about one thing: respecting your privacy.

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Stephane Thirion

19 Jul 2025 · 1 min read

ansible

Automating VMware VM Deployment with Ansible: Guide to Static IP Configuration - request

Deploying multiple VMs with consistent configuration shouldn't require hours of manual clicking through vCenter. With Ansible's vmware_guest module, you can automate the entire process from VM creation to static IP assignment.

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Stephane Thirion

4 Jul 2025 · 3 min read

Computer Vision

Building an AI-Powered Vehicle Speed Monitor (Machine learning)

A complete guide for deploying a real-time vehicle speed monitoring system using computer vision and machine learning on Ubuntu 24.04 Server.

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Stephane Thirion

3 Jul 2025 · 5 min read

AI

Ready to unlock the full potential of AI? A Quick Guide to Choosing the Right System

Choose the right AI system to unlock true potential. Paid tiers (like $20/month) offer advanced features for serious tasks. Open-source models provide control but require self-hosting and technical effort.

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Stephane Thirion

27 Jun 2025 · 3 min read

open-source AI

How Open-Source AI Is Accelerating the Rise of Open-Source Software

Open-source isn’t just a license. It is a strategy for resilience, sovereignty, and innovation.

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Stephane Thirion

22 Jun 2025 · 5 min read

AI

Choosing Between Local AI and Cloud AI: What You Need to Know

Explore the pros and cons of running AI locally versus in the cloud. Discover when to use edge AI, when to rely on cloud platforms, and how hybrid architectures combine the best of both.

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Stephane Thirion

18 Jun 2025 · 3 min read

AI

NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025: Europe’s AI Launchpad

GTC Paris 2025 highlighted NVIDIA's end-to-end AI stack: Blackwell GPU deployment, AI-Q Blueprint agents, and sovereign infrastructure scaling across Europe. As enterprise adoption grows, open-source frameworks like LangChain and AutoGen offer modular, hardware-agnostic alternatives.

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Stephane Thirion

11 Jun 2025 · 4 min read

AI

From virtual desktops to virtual minds: My AI focus explained

Over the last two years, I’ve made a conscious decision to shift a significant part of my focus toward Artificial Intelligence. This wasn’t a trend-chasing move. It was

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Stephane Thirion

10 Jun 2025 · 2 min read

ComfyUI

Self-hosted ComfyUI install - Ubuntu 24.02

How to Install ComfyUI on Ubuntu 24.04 in /opt/ComfyUI with GPU Support and Auto-Start

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Stephane Thirion

6 Jun 2025 · 3 min read